WebView ignoring .css file on actual Surface tablet

Question

I am using a WebView to display html pages that are loaded from a sub folder of my Assets folder.  When I run my app on a Windows 8 PC or on the tablet emulator everything works fine.  However, when I am running on an actual Surface tablet, the pages do not seem to be loading the .css file and are, therefore, not formatted properly.

Is there something that I am missing here?

Thanks

As an update, I have found that if I embed the css file inside the HTML file everything works fine, even on a tablet.  Needless to say this will be very inconvenient.  Is there some permissions issue that is preventing the .css file from being loaded?

Answer 1

I have found the problem.  When I switched from building for Win32 to ARM, Visual Studio removed the css files from the list of included files.  Oddly, it seems as if those were the ONLY files that were removed.  Strange.

Answer 2

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the solution.

Did you check if in the project settings of ARM include the .css file.

Sometimes, we change the platform, the project files is different.

Best regards,
Jesse

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Answer 3

Make sure you set these file not only in project but also included as resource(settings somewhere) too.

Answer 4

Where do I find this setting?  I keep getting a WebErrorStatus 18 when I try to navigate to a page that I've added to Assets.

Update:  I think I found it.  Right-click file -> properties, then for all builds/platforms set "Excluded From Build" to "No", "Content" to "Yes", and "Item Type" to "Text" (for my html file).  Thanks!

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Andrea Mantler